The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $ 1 million, as well as an injunction stopping Yoga to the People from conducting hot yoga classes.

It’s the latest in a series of lawsuits by Choudhury, who also sued Prana Yoga in Miami in 2003, claiming copyright infringement similar to the YTTP lawsuit. Prana Yoga settled, agreeing to pay out “substantial monetary compensation,” according to a Bikram Yoga press release.

The suit, which YTTP is fighting with a petition, raises the question of whether yoga poses performed in a certain way can constitute intellectual property. Yoga to the People says the suit threatens its whole business model, and that they’d go out of business if they were hit with those punitive damages. And where would NYU undergrads wear their yoga pants? Oh, right, everywhere.